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Coast Guard cutter Hollyhock sets buoy-tending record
The schedule included working 17 buoys, which would break the ship's previous record of 14.
By Brian Wells, The Times Herald
‘Lava bomb’ case going to court
The U.S. Coast Guard established a temporary safety zone in early 2017 that extended 300 meters from the lava flow and made the buffer permanent last May — although officials granted waivers to some research and commercial vessels to get closer to the molten rock.
Presidents’ Day pause: How ‘Uncle Sam’s Web-feet’ helped swing an election for Abe Lincoln
The U.S. Navy's triumph at Mobile Bay, combined with victorious Federal ground campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, helped reelect Abraham Lincoln and doomed the Confederacy to defeat.
By Gerald D. Swick, Civil War Times Magazine
Meet the unstoppable Mr. Smalls
He would go on to share intelligence with the U.S. Navy, fight in 17 naval battles, rise to the rank of major general, overcome illiteracy, publish a newspaper, win state and congressional offices, serve as a U.S. collector of customs and become master of his master’s plantation house. But first he had to hijack a Confederate steamer.
By Gerald S. Henig, America's Civil War Magazine
Sometimes, a good man has to take a hatchet to a bad man’s skull.
The captain’s stateroom looked like a slaughterhouse.
By Jonathan W. White, Civil War Times Magazine
Blessed by the Coast Guard, this boat is about to become an artificial reef
The cruise liner El Dorado will be filled with water and sunk to a depth of about 100 feet.
By Patrick McCreless, News Herald of Panama City